Police accompanied fees protesters who marched this afternoon Friday 21 October 2016 from Rhodes University to the Grahamstown Police Station, where they delivered a memorandum alleging police brutality.
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Three men who initially decided to abandon their right to apply for bail in the Grahamstown Magistrate's Court earlier this week in connection with the gruesome murder of a 29-year-old Grahamstown man have changed their minds.
With tension building again at Rhodes University late last night, Tuesday 18 October, the Grahamstown campus looked set for more conflict between police and protesters.
Today the number of students that will appear in the Grahamstown Magistrate's court tomorrow increased to eleven after another student was arrested in the Admin Building today.
The fifth and final suspect in the gruesome murder case of a 29-year-old Extension 6 man, whose body was discovered wrapped in a carpet floating in the Zion dam last week, has handed himself over to police following the arrests of his four co-accused on Sunday, 9 October.
Rhodes University acknowledged the effect that events on campus were having on the town, hours before five students arrested during disruptions yesterday Monday 10 October were released on warning. And employee union Nehawu has spoken out strongly against threats to employee safety as a result of the #RUFeesMustFall protests and police responses to them.
Shoprite in Beaufort Street, Grahamstown, was left with only four tellers this morning Friday 7 October, as employees from that store and Checkers in High Street picketed outside the store.
Heavily equipped Public Order Police from East London moved on to the Rhodes University campus around 5.30am today Wednesday 5 October following around three hours of action by protesters at the corner of Somerset and Prince Alfred Streets in Grahamstown, on the day that later saw the University agreeing to an academic amnesty during day-long negotiations between local stakeholders in the #Fees conflict.
The identity of the person whose body was found floating in Zion Dam in Extension 6 this morning Wednesday 5 October has not yet been established, nor has the cause of his death.
There were tense scenes at Rhodes University lecture venues this morning Monday 3 October as protesting students entered some lecture venues and disrupted classes. And there was also visible tension between two staff groupings who both say they are prepared to put their bodies on the line for students exercising their rights – but whose idea of what those rights are greatly differs.